Bony Fish Collection (page 5)

Scorpaena cardinalis, red rockcod
Ff. 190. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Carangoides crysos, blue runner
Ff. 94 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Katsuwomus pelamis, skipjack tuna
Ff. 230. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

LS Plate 164 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Carassius auratus, carassin
LS Plate 169 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Pterois volitans, red lionfish
LS Plate 150 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Cypselurus poecilopterus, yellow-wing flyingfish
Ff. 109 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Coryphaena hippurus, common dolphinfish
Ff. 188. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Polyprion oxygeneios, hapuka
Ff. 218. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Aldrichetta forsteri, yellow-eyed mullet
Ff. 239. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Pseudolabrus miles, scarlet wrasse
Ff. 38 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Crenimugil crenilabis, fringelip mullet
Ff. 238. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Thalassoma hardwicke, six-bar wrasse
Ff. 49 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Rhinecanthus rectangulus, wedge-tailed triggerfish
Ff. 58a. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Centropyge bispinosus, coral beauty angel
Ff. 117 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Gazza minuta, toothpony
Ff. 191. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Arripis trutta, Australian salmon
Ff. 68 Vol 2. Unfinished watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Cyprinus auratus, goldfish
Plate 121 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Uraspis helvolus, cottonmouth jack
Ff. 227. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Oligoplites saurus, leatherjacket
Ff. 97 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Acanthurus nigricans, gold rim tang
Ff. 196. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Wrasse
Plate 38 from by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Plate 35 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826. Fish labelled Girelle pao and Girelle a demi paree

Enoplosus armatus, old wife
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Goe in mag gee, from the Watling Collection

Paraplesiops bleekeri, eastern blue devil
Watercolour 376 by Thomas Watling entitled Thorral Ga ne ra, from the Watling Collection

Thyrsites atun, barracuda
Watercolour 372 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Wel-gnoo-roo, from the Watling Collection

Synaphobranchus kaupi, arrowtooth eel
Specimen jar containing many arrowtooth eels (Synaphobranchus kaupi), held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Syngnathus crinitus, banded pipefish
Specimen jar containing a banded pipefish (Syngnathus crinitus) collected by Charles Darwin in Patagonia during the voyage of the Beagle

Engraulis ringens, Peruvian anchoveta
Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Syngnathus crinitus, insular pipefish
Insular pipefish (Syngnathus crinitus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Clinus crinitus
Fish specimens (Clinus crinitus) brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Lepidotes mantelli Agassiz, lepidotes tooth plate

Pseudoscarus lepidus, parrot fish
Parrot fish (Pseudoscarus lepidus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Eleginops maclovinus, rock cod
Rock cod (Eleginops maclovinus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Syngnathus acicularis, deep-bodied pipefish

Black bass
Illustration by Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott (1831-1887)

Scorpaena histrio, player scorpionfish
Player scorpion (Scorpaena histrio) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Poeciliidae sp. Guppy
Illustration of Guppy fish by Guppy, Plantagenet Lechmere 1903

Acipenser sp. sturgeon
An eight foot long sturgeon, caught off the coast of Wales, June 2004. It was once the subject of a police investigation, but was eventually donated to the Natural History Museum, London

Toad Stones or fish teeth

Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Selar crumenophthalmus, bigeye scad
Fish labelled Caranx torvus collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Calamus taurinus, Galapagos porgy
Fish labelled Chrysophrys taurina collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Hemidoras stenopeltis, catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the catfish Hemidoras stenopeltis from Cuyucuyu, Upper Rio Negro

Hydrocynus sp. tigerfish
Specimen skull of a tigerfish (Hydrocynus sp.). Tigerfish are found in warm rivers and lakes throughout Africa, they are fierce and voracious feeding on whatever is most abundant

Hoplostethus atlanticus, orange roughy
Photograph of three orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus). These handsome and widespread, deep-living fish are already suffering from overfishing in some places

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